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Chapter 19 - Gift

Days passed and Vaughn found the pile of paper in the inbox on his desk growing on a daily basis. While it was satisfying to be making so much progress, Vaughn was slightly peeved at the fact there was no chance for him to have another chat with Jack. Vaughn had been surprised by the way in which Jack had treated him. He had felt almost like an equal and it had slight unsettled him.

"Hey Mike" Lily called as she breezed past his desk and plopped down at her own desk with a matching pile of files.

"Hey Lil" Vaughn replied distracted.

"Did you hear?"

"Depends"

"Your friend, Jack Bristow, he leaves tomorrow" she replied lightly

Vaughn froze. He had almost become accustomed to the fact that he might bump into Jack at any moment around the base. And now he was leaving. Vaughn stood up abruptly. There was something he had to do.

"Where you going?" Lily called after him as he pushed back from his desk

"To think" was his simple reply as he burst into the sunshine.

The heat hit him hard and the red air rubbed coarsely against his skin. The CIA couldn't have sent me to the Caribbean Vaughn thought to himself vaguely as he took the familiar path back to his bunker. He flung open the door like a man on a mission and hurried to his room. There, he pulled out a pad of paper and began to write.

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"It was a pleasure to meet you Jack" Phil stated as he and Jack shook hands

"Thank you for having me"

"Jack, don't be so formal. You sound like someone's grandmother"

Jack grinned as he waved while walking towards the helicopter.

"Jack!"

He turned abruptly to find Vaughn pelting across towards him

"Can you please give this to her?" he shouted over the helicopter, gasping for breath. He extended his hand which was grasping a plain white envelope.

""To who?"

"Don't play dumb Jack; you are too smart for it"

Jack smirked. "Good luck Agent Vaughn" he stated simply, taking the envelope from Vaughn's outstretched hand.

"Thank you Jack"

Vaughn walked back into the shade next to Phil and watched as his last connection to home leave.


Haha! You all want to know what was in there. And unfortunately I am going to save that little secret for a few more chapters! Muahahaha! I know – so evil! But you will find out! I promise! Please review!

The next chapter should be up in the next couple of days, sorry this was so short!

Caz, now you have loverVaughn, for your reading pleasure ;)